Scrubbing-brush.



Patented Nov, 25, I902.

J. B. MARTIN.

SCRUBBING BRUSH.

(Applicstion fllgd Aug. 1 6, 1902.)

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UNITED STATES JOHN B. MARTIN, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

SCRUBBING-BRUSH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 714,215, dated November 25, 1902.

Application filed August 16,1902.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, JOHN B. MARTIN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented certain 'new and useful Improvements in Scrubbing- Brushes, of which the following is a specification.

Among the various objects of my invention may be mentioned the following, to Wit: first, to provide a cleaning and scrubbing brush exceedingly simple in construction and useful and convenient in operation, with a duplex scraper for removing resistfulsubstances on the plane surface of floors and woodwork and four sharp corners for cleaning out grooves and crevices; secondly, to provide a brush wherein a duplex four-cornered scraper is formed upon one or both ends of the back of cleaning and scrubbing brushes, all of which are integral with the back of brush; thirdly, to secure compactness of construction, and under this head to secure such a construction as that the scraping-points shall require no more room than would the back when these scrapers were absent; fourthly, to secure cheapness and economy of manufacture; fifthly, to secure convenience in use; sixthly, to obtain a device which can be readily applied to a shoe-cleaning and scrubbing brush and combined therewith.

The several features of my invention and the various advantages derived from their use conjointly or otherwise will be apparent from the following description and claim.

In the accompanying drawings, making a part of this application, and in which simi-' lar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts, Figure 1 represents in perspective a View of a scrubbing-brush embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a top view of the same brush.

I will now proceed to describe my invention in detail.

The body of the brush, although it may be made of any suitable material, is preferably made of wood. The sides and top may each be of any desired configuration. These do not, however, enter into my invention. A plain and simple back, such as shown, with straight sides 0 C and rounded end 0 I prefer for economy of manufacture. This simple shape is also a very useful one.

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about to the middle of the thickness of thebackviz., to the line B B. From this line I again cut outward and downward to the lower edge A A of the said front. I thus form two plain edges and four corners, each and all useful in cleaning, as hereinbefore indicated. As these corners are found on each side of the end of the back, it makes no difference whether the one using the brush is a right or a left handed person, nor on which side the work happens to be. Some one of the corners is at all times available, and no time is lost in hunting a chip or old knife to do the scraping with. Again, it is to be observed that the broad upper edge A A of the end C sharpened, as it is, by the formation I have given to it, is conveniently used'as a scraper to clean any fiat surface.

WVhile the back may be composite, and also those parts particularly representing my invention be originally separate and be subsequently combined with and made a part of the back of the brush, yet the preferable modev is to form these parts integral with the other portion or portions of the back.

The invention is applicable not only to scrubbing-brushes, but to blacking-brushes and to brushes used for similar or analogous purposes, and the term scrubbing-brush as used in the claim is to be understood to include such brushes.

What I claim as newand of my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A brush having a V-shaped groove in its back extending from the upper edge thereof downward and inward to the median line,and thence downward and outward to the lower edge of the back to form scraping edges, all substantially as shown and described.

JOHN B. MARTIN.

Attest:

F. H. DODGE, ERNEST G. SIMON. 

